From: Ellen K. 

And meanwhile FDC is going to spin off Western Union.  Gonna be interesting.

On Mon, 29 May 2006 15:01:26 -0700, "Rich"  wrote in message
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>   Nothing like paypal.  It was for banks and the kinds of bills that banks
still handle today with their electronic bill paying services.  See
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1997/Jun97/msfdcpr.mspx.  This was
still the case when Transpoint and Checkfree merged.  See
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2000/Feb00/TransPointPR.mspx.
Checkfree looks to still be in exactly this business.
>
>Rich
>
>  "Randy"  wrote in message
news:447b5773$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>  Microsoft tried once before to get into the payments business with First
>  Data - it was originally called MSFDC, then Transpoint, and was
>  eventually sold off to Checkfree-neither side had what it took.

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